Gitignores

GitHub’s collection of gitignores, embedded, automatically updated.

• API documentation.
• Public Domain via CC0-1.0 (same as source data).
• MSRV: 1.37.0 (increases are breaking changes)
• Doesn't require std.
• No dependencies.
• Works offline.

Quick start

[dependencies]
gitignores = "1.0.0"

dbg!(gitignores::Root::Rust);

API

Each gitignore is available as a variant of one of three enums:

(
	gitignores::Root::Rust,
	gitignores::Global::Emacs,
	gitignores::Community::Racket,
)

The enums implement Display / .to_string(), which will return the contents of the gitignore (only when the std feature is enabled):

println!("{}", gitignores::Root::Rust);
gitignores::Global::Emacs.to_string();

The enums also implement a GitIgnore trait:

trait GitIgnore {
	/// The contents of the gitignore
	///
	/// Returns an empty string if the `no-contents` feature is enabled.
	fn contents(self) -> &'static str;

	/// The file name of the gitignore
	fn file_name(self) -> &'static str;

	/// The full path of the gitignore relative to repo root
	fn file_path(self) -> &'static str;

	/// The list of all included gitignores
	fn list() -> Vec<&'static str>;
}

Finally, there is a constant with the git reference of the commit the crate was built from:

dbg!(gitignores::GIT_COMMIT_REF);

Features

By default all gitignores are included, but you can customise this as granularily as you wish. To get started with selecting your custom set, first disable the default features:

[dependencies.gitignores]
default-features = false
features = []

Collections

Feature name	Path in gitignore repo	Path in crate
root	/*.gitignore	Root::
global	/Global/**/*.gitignore	Global::
community	/community/**/*.gitignore	Community::

Individual gitignores

Each gitignore can be enabled with the <collection>-<name> feature. Gitignores in subfolders have the folder name prepended to the name, like <collection>-<folder>-<name>. All are lowercased.

Other

• no-contents: omit the embedded file contents, leaving only the metadata.
• std: implement the Display trait on the enums.

Examples

All globals and only Rust root

[dependencies.gitignores]
default-features = false
features = ["global", "root-rust"]

Some specific gitignores

[dependencies.gitignores]
default-features = false
features = ["community-racket", "global-emacs", "root-commonlisp"]

Versioning

This crate respects semver!

It will bump the major version (breaking release) when:

• Gitignores disappear from a collection
• Gitignores move from a collection to another
• Gitignores are renamed
• The minimum required Rust version increases

It will bump the minor version when:

• New gitignores are added to a collection

It will bump the patch version when:

• Gitignore contents change

This repo checks for updates to the gitignore repo once a day, and automatically releases if changes are found.

License

The published crate (gitignores) is generated from the data, which is CC0-1.0, and so it itself is CC0-1.0 (Public Domain).

The generator code is Apache 2.0 / MIT.